Apple Ranked as Top Smartphone Manufacturer in February With 41.7% Market Share

Apple was the top smartphone manufacturer in February with 41.7 percent OEM market share, reports comScore. The top smartphone platform was Android with 52.8% market share.

Smartphone OEM Market Share186.3 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (76.6 percent mobile market penetration) during the three months ending in February, up 5 percent since November. Apple ranked as the top OEM with 41.7 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers. Samsung ranked second with 28.6 percent market share, followed by LG with 8.3 percent (up 0.7 percentage points from November), Motorola with 5.1 percent and HTC with 3.8 percent (up 0.1 percentage points).

Smartphone Platform Market ShareAndroid ranked as the top smartphone platform in February with 52.8 percent market share (up 0.2 percentage points from November), followed by Apple with 41.7 percent, Microsoft with 3.5 percent (up 0.1 percentage points), BlackBerry with 1.8 percent and Symbian with 0.1 percent.

It will be interesting to see if Samsung is able to gain any market share with the release of its new Galaxy S6 this month. For updates, follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, or RSS.

Out of all the Androids phones I sell from my 3 Shop/Labs I believe that the HTC is the best ( never comes back to my Labs ) Galaxy is the worst the charging port keeps breaking loose and need soldering all the time also Samsung Galaxy is a total magnet for Viruses, the iPhones never come back unless it's for a broken screen or for water damage treatment.